D4.2 Transport Open Data: Properties and Specifications for Open Science

This deliverable’s objectives are to: i) identify available open big data in the transport research sector, and ii) provide recommendations for making them FAIR, in order to feed the TOPOS Observatory and Forum development in WP3. TOPOS aims to promote communication and networking among stakeholders in the transport research area. This report confirms the remarks of the HLEG report and the NOESIS project regarding the low uptake of FAIR and Open principles by the transport research community, especially when big datasets are involved. Transport research is inherently cross-disciplinary and so provides an ideal context in which to apply principles such as FAIR but unfortunately, most of the data that transport researchers collect is used once and then stored away in locations that are inaccessible to other researchers.